CUNY FORUM

CUNY FORUM, published by the Asian American and Asian Research Institute (AAARI), is the first journal in CUNY's 160+ year history
focused on Asian American and Asian issues, edited by veteran editor and
award-winning American Book award writer Russell C. Leong, the 2012-2013
CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at Hunter College. According to
Leong, the goal of the FORUM is to bring intellectual and cultural
communities together in a new commons that takes readers well beyond
typecasting Asian Americans as merely another American "minority brand."

"A generation ago,
scholars held out for the promise that, in addition to the
West and the Pacific, Asian American studies could be
anchored in communities that were 'east of California.' Asian American Matters: A New York Anthology delivers on
that promise, with a collection of incisive writing by
activists and educators that is necessary, timely, and
vital."

- Theodore S. Gonzalves,
Ph.D.

Curator, Asian Pacific American Histories, National Museum
of American History, Smithsonian Institution

President, Association for Asian American Studies
(2018-2020)

"Situated against a backdrop of increased xenophobia, reinvigorated nativism, rising Islamophobia, and intensified racism in the United States, Asian American Matters potently reminds its readers of the possibilities of coalitional activism and political dissent. Such capacious dynamics, consistently at the forefront of Asian American Matters, evocatively reflect and refract the revolutionary legacies which brought the very notion of “Asian America” into being."

- Cathy Schlund-Vials

Director, Asian and Asian
American Studies Institute & Professor of English and Asian/Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut

President, Association for Asian American
Studies (2016-2018)

A commemorative edition on
the fifth-year anniversary of CUNY FORUM, Asian American Matters features forty New York and U.S. scholars
writers, artists and activists, is the
first national anthology to address post 9/11 issues around Asians,
Asian Americans, South Asians, and Muslims in relation to Asian American
Studies and communities.